Proof That Animal Collective Songs Can be Performed Without Instruments

February 17, 2010

Did you somehow doubt that the alien-spatter electronics of Animal Collective could be performed by actual humans, as opposed to bits of broken and tie-dyed machinery? Wrong! Thanks to Momo & the Coop, an a cappella group comprised of Lewis & Clark students, AC’s “Leaf House” has been successfully funneled through vocal chords. The result is a mosh of convulsing collegiate torsos, gleefully harmonizing Ave Tare’s mid-song monkey screech before settling on a chordal interpretation of the ending “meows.” A noble attempt to bridge the seemingly disparate realms of Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear, indeed. Now imagine if these guys teamed up with Cornell’s steel drum group: